Comments by "Joe R M" (@joermnyc) on "Weird History" channel.

  1. The use of x-rays for bootleg records was also because you could roll them up and hide them up your sleeve.
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  2. Artist: I shall call him Mini-Me.
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  3. “Don’t shoot him... you’ll just make him mad.”
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  4. Wonder what gave him away? Arrrr father who aarrrt in heaven...
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  5. “You ARE the father... and the... grandfather? Get off my show.”
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  6. “Put them in the Iron Maiden.” “Iron Maiden? EXCELLENT!” “EXECUTE THEM!” “Bogus.”
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  7. “Emperor, there’s a horrid plague roaming the lands!” “Oh dear, that’s more bad news.” ‘Cheer up.” “So there is good news then? “Yes! The people have named the new plague after you.”
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  8. It must be noted, in the USSR these girls weren’t considered “human” but “mutants”. One wonders if one of the horrible experiments was to see if they could alter Masha’s personality to be so different from her sister.
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  9. There was also the infamous 1977 blackout in New York City, it was the straw that broke the camel’s back and chaos erupted over large parts of town. It was also the year of the World Series in the Bronx where an apartment building nearby was on fire, and Howard Cosell is misattributed as saying, “There is, ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning.”
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  10. SNL had Nixon talk to the portraits! Lincoln, “You’re lucky Abe... they only shot you.”
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  11. It doesn’t help the “Cobain was murdered” theory that the alleged hitman was later hit by a train... but many point to the “last” Nirvana song, “You Know You’re Right” that he’s singing about leaving... something (either his wife, or fame... or the living (and subsequently his daughter).
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  12. You missed that when they picked up her head, it fell out of the wig she was wearing... all the stresses of her life made Mary Queen of Scots a little bald.
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  13. “You can't expect to wield supreme power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!” -Dennis
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  14.  @massalleh5255  very much, Queen Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha , which was changed to Windsor during Ww1, Even though Prince Philip was a Greek royal his family was the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderberg-Glücksburgs! After losing their kingdom, they adapted the last name Battenburg, but changed to Mountbatten to sound less German also because of the war.
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  15. I played the video game “Yukon Trail” (like “Oregon Trail”), picked a First Nations woman as the guide (figured she knew the land better than anyone else), and though my character and her had many setbacks (she broke her leg at some point), they made a small profit and even got married and started a family at the end!
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  16. Imperial Japan also did horrible medical “experiments” (and many other bad things) to people in China and Korea... much of this was never heard of in the Western world.
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  17. Right, but then her daughter never had an heir and the Crown went to Scottish Kings (Stuart) for a while... and then they had to invite over Germanic royals (Hanover) after they eventually had the same problem!
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  18. Actually the Queen Mother wasn't the only Royal family member to pass in 2002, her other daughter, Princess Margaret, died a few weeks earlier.
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  19. We last did nuclear drills in Junior High School (right around the time of the fall of the USSR). They’d make us shut all the shades over the windows, then bunker down in the hallways away from the classroom doors. We’d joke that we’d live because the walls and ceilings were covered in many layers of lead paint, and the floor tiles were made with asbestos fibers.
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  20. Why aren’t there movies about these ladies? I’d like to know their stories in more detail.
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  21. I believe either Erick the Red or his Leif Ericsson were “outlaws” when they journeyed across the Atlantic, Leif eventually finding North America (500 years before Columbus... it’s just that the Vikings weren’t so happy to share this news with the rest of Europe.)
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  22. Many cultures also consider wearing outside shoes indoors to be rude and offensive. Slippers are provided so long as they are never worn outside the house, and in Japanese culture there’s even a special pair of slippers to be worn solely in the toilet.
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  23. Mr. Chopsticks nicotine was also considered “medicine” for a long time...
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  24. I never knew he was married, or that his wife was also of Japanese heritage. Creepy.
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  25. Some speculate that Caligula was suffering from untreated syphilis, which once it crosses the blood brain barrier can lead to insanity as the disease destroys brain tissue.
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  26. Kurt was self medicating a life long issue of stomach pains. He probably had celiac disease before it was well documented...
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  27. Actually, the Viking short on the sides, long on top is practical in battle, stuff the top hair under your helmet (no horns on war helmets) and no enemies can grab you by the hair.
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  28. WH: “It’s so easy, a caveman could do it.” Caveman: “What! …yeah ok, you got us. But just this once.”
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  29. It used so much fuel because on take off it was literally burning fuel. It used afterburners like a fighter jet, fuel is injected into the hot exhaust so it ignites (that orange glow at the back of the engines) it gives a speed boost. It also explains the loud racket both inside and outside the plane (saw this taking off a few times, it was LOUDER than anything else in the skies.)
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  30. 2% mortality rate, but a 20% hospitalization rate. What country has enough hospital beds for 20% of the population? I do agree people are acting like the mortality rate is more like 100%... and they somehow believe toilet paper and now paper towels will save them. (Last store I was in had neither... I wasn’t looking to buy those, just trying to find discounted Easter chocolate. :)
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  31.  @ringingsteel8729  that Johnny Depp film "Don Juan DeMarco" where he gets locked in a harem with 1500 women... Which later comes back to bite him when the love of his life, who is OK with not being his first, asks how many lovers he had previously and he says "before you... one... Thousand five hundred and two." (Don Juan's narrative voice over) "Perhaps this was not the best time for total honesty." 😂
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  32.  @FastBowtie388  actually several Emperors opted to take an adopted or surrogate son under their wing and make them the heir, but if that “son” lived at the palace, he’d be eating the same amount of Sapa anyway.
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  33.  @seraphik  right, so the closest thing left of Celtic Britons in modern times are the Welsh... And people from Brittany in France. I don't think the UK would accept anyone from these places as the "true heir" to the throne.
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  34. Trolling while nude with the window open, and electrocuting a turkey.
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  35. Eric Hutton and Jackson had previously been shot during a duel... that lead ball was also not removed. However, the would be assassin had TWO pistols misfire... and that probably ticked off Jackson even more!
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  36. One of the rumors about Jackson’s White House party: it got so out of hand, Jackson had to sneak out of there through a window and he retreated to a nearby hotel for the night.
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  37. “It’s just you and me now, lock of hair.”
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  38. “You might be a king or a little street sweeper, but sooner or later you dance with the reaper.”
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  39. China: hold my beer and watch this Great Leap Forward.
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  40. If I remember correctly that spot is “approximately” where the scaffold was, they didn’t have an accurate location for it... but it was still kind of creepy and didn’t seem like a place to eat.
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  41. Strange but true: prior to coming up with the Teacher in Space idea, NASA wanted to fly Big Bird on the shuttle. The logistics of flying a large muppet suit ultimately led to them abandoning the idea. Can you imagine if Big Bird wound up on Challenger?
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  42. Another Simpsons episode first pulled and then heavily edited for obvious reasons: The City of New York vs Homer Simpson…due to scenes around the World Trade Center pre-9/11 including two guys yelling from each tower at Homer and one guy says, “Don’t mind him, they stick all the jerks in Tower 1.”
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  43. Michael Scott yelling, “No! God no!” On an infinite loop.
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  44. Interesting that this tryst drove the one sister to become a nun... It would have been funny if later on when Casanova was messing around with two other nuns she ran into him.
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  45. Roland Tuason it was medieval times, everyone stank and had shit on them... unless they were a king.
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  46. Martha: “He’s not the messiah, he’s a very naughty boy.” George: “[aside] honey, don’t tell them that.”
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  47. Better call Saul Odinson.
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  48. Catherine the Great: got Russians to adopt to early vaccination. Russians today: “Get that needle away from me!”
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  49. There’s two artificial islands of of Staten Island: Hoffman and Swinburne, they were used for quarantining sick migrants from Ellis Island. One island was for people expected to recover. The other… well it had a crematorium. During WW2 they were used for training and to hold anti-submarine nets. Despite plans to make them parks, or even homeless shelters, both have been left to return to nature as part of the Gateway National Park system. Many harbor birds and even seals use the islands. If you are going over the bridge you can see them to the south, and they are visible from South Beach as well.
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  50. It’s called hire a bigger plane.
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